A Meal of Thorns 46- THE BIG SLEEP with Max Gladstone

We’re leaving speculative genres for just a moment! Author Max Gladstone joins to discuss style & structure in Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled classic The Big Sleep, a work that’s been massively influential across SFF literature, games, & film.

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• Guest: Max Gladstone
• Title: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• Host:Jake Casella Brookins
• Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
  • Additional music from David Hilowitz’s “Future Cities”, CC BY-NC 4.0
  • And a couple of seconds from the end of The Mountain Goats’ “Cadaver Sniffing Dog”
• Artwork byRob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

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• Stranger Things
• Metro City by Kurt Busiec et al.
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• Kieron Gillan
• Balsam Karam's Event Horizon
• John Darnielle's This Year
• Song Exploder episode on the Mountain Goats song “Cadaver Sniffing Dog”
• 'Pataphysics
• Waigong & neigong
• Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”
• Dorothy Parker
• William Gibson
• L.A. Confidential, dir. Curtis Hanson
• Tracer Bullet in Bill Waterson’s Calvin & Hobbes
• Snoopy in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts
• Dashiel Hammett
• Haruki Murakami'sHard-Boiled Wonderland & The End of the World
• Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light & The Dead Man's Brother
• The Raymond Chandler Papers, edited by Tom Hiney & Frank McShane
• James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity
• Chandler’s essay “The Simple Art of Murder”
• Max Payne, directed by Petri Järvilehto & written by Sam Lake
• Albert Camus & Jean-Paul Sartre
• Robert A. Heinlein
• Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun
• Hammet's The Maltese Falcon
• Chandler’s The Long Goodbye
• Fix-ups & “cannibal novels”
• William Faulkner & Leigh Bracket
• To Have and To Have Not, directed by Howard Hawks
• Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall
• Chandler’s The High Window
• Rex Stour's Nero Wolfe stories, such as Black Orchids
• “The CSI effect”
• Jeffrey Rowland's “Science Cop” bit in Wigu
• David Lynch
• Paul Aster
• Peter Brooks' Reading for the Plot
• Dead Hand Rule, the latest Craft novel (one more to come!)
• Max's website & newsletter